The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, recognized “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian also won the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. read more The 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt read one book every day. read more The American football team The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem, The Raven. read more The average audiobook is around 10 hours long. read more The average audiobook is around 10 hours long. A voice actor spends, on average, 20 hours in the studio recording an audiobook. read more The average author age in the U.S. is 42 years old. Source: Zippia read more The average number of books read in a lifetime is 735 for females and 684 for males, according to Literary Hub. read more The average person can read around 40 pages per hour. read more The band U2 borrowed a chapter title, Shadows and Tall Trees, in Lord of the Flies to name one of their songs. read more The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is part of Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. The rare books& manuscripts are housed in a spectacular, elevated, glassed-in, 6-story tower of book stacks. Built in 1962, it’s one of the largest of this kind in the world. read more The Biblioburro (Donkey library) is a bookmobile that delivers books from the backs of two donkeys to the children in the remote villages of Colombia. Luis Soriano, a school teacher, started this program in the late 1990s with one donkey and his 70 books. Now he has 7000+ titles! read more The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Established by Sir Thomas Bodley and officially opened in 1602, the library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. read more «« « 28 29 30 31 32 » »»
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, recognized “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Her novel The Vegetarian also won the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. read more
The American football team The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem, The Raven. read more
The average audiobook is around 10 hours long. A voice actor spends, on average, 20 hours in the studio recording an audiobook. read more
The average number of books read in a lifetime is 735 for females and 684 for males, according to Literary Hub. read more
The band U2 borrowed a chapter title, Shadows and Tall Trees, in Lord of the Flies to name one of their songs. read more
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is part of Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. The rare books& manuscripts are housed in a spectacular, elevated, glassed-in, 6-story tower of book stacks. Built in 1962, it’s one of the largest of this kind in the world. read more
The Biblioburro (Donkey library) is a bookmobile that delivers books from the backs of two donkeys to the children in the remote villages of Colombia. Luis Soriano, a school teacher, started this program in the late 1990s with one donkey and his 70 books. Now he has 7000+ titles! read more
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. Established by Sir Thomas Bodley and officially opened in 1602, the library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and the second-largest library in Britain after the British Library. read more
